Dramatic landscape: The film competes with The Rock's Hercules movie which is released next year

Vowing to return the Princess, Hercules is then urged to channel the power of Zeus - his own father and father of the Gods.

'You are the son of Zeus. Embrace your father and you will discover powers that you never imagined,' a follower tells him.

Cue Hercules looking at the sky and using lightning to wipe out his opponents in battle.

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Despite the dramatic landscape and impressive action scenes, Lutz's take on Hercules will have to battle with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson who stars in Hercules: The Thracian Wars, directed by Brett Ratner - also out next year.

However, Kellan says that his film, which is out several months before Johnson's, will be distinctly different.

'They have a great cast, but the story is completely different,' he told Crave Online. '[Johnson's Hercules] is much older and our Hercules is the man’s journey from him being a boy to a man, and it’s very real and human.

'Our character goes through being lovestruck and then heartbroken and then anguish and loneliness, sadness and remorse.

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He added: 'It’s really a story about a man, a man and the journey to get back to
his love. So it’s not a man with super-powers.

'A man not understanding
the strengths that he does have and he’s in denial because he doesn’t
believe in gods at first and doesn’t believe that he’s the son of Zeus
and just really feels rejected by who he thinks is his father.

'It’s just
really going through the story of what a normal boy would go through
and the situation that he’s forced into.'

Hercules: The Legend Begins is set for release on March 2014.

Historical dress sense: Kellan sports a white toga in the early scenes of the movie